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Georgios Zisopoulos 12/1/2023
Hello! I am working on a model that depicts the electricity production and consumption in Greece including seasonal storage. To achieve that, I have to somehow insert the hourly production of RES plants, since I am basing the electricity production almost exclusively on solar PV, wind turbines and hydroelectric power plants. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on the topic.
Bellow I have included the structure of the model
Thank you.
Robert Brecha 12/8/2023
For hourly production of variable electricity sources you must make use of an "availability load shape". An intro to this process is shown in the LEAP training video SIDA #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6suTuLr9bOE
Basically, you must have a spreadsheet open in which a column of hourly data for production as a percentage of maximum capacity are given (e.g. 50, not 0.5, for 50%). This can be read into LEAP as a load shape (availability) and then under your transformation branch for that technology (e.g. solar pv) you would choose for "Maximum availability" that new load shape.